Short Answer Questions Flashcards
(13)
States all factors which can create health inequities.
(Dogs)
Discrimination, Occupation, Gender, Socio-Economic Status.
(Guard)
Geographic Location, Unemployment, Access to healthcare, Racism, Dislocation of land.
(PEGS)
Poor Health Literacy, Education, Government policy, Social Isolation.
(4)
State and define, types of data which create epidemiological data.
Quantitative – Data whereby it is descriptive in nature, express in language instead of numerical values.
Qualitative – Data refers to any information that can be measured, counted, and given a numerical value.
(3)
What can you do to improve health literacy when addressing health inequities to a patient?
Any other reasonable answer
* Using Jargon free communication.
* Using pictures to help clarify information.
* Using teach me method, whereby the patient is asked how to do a task that has been performed/shown.
(4)
Identify 2 action areas of the OTTOWA charter.
Develop personal skills.
People need to develop personal skills to live a fulfilling life, whereby they are independent and can make healthy choices.
Re-orient health services.
Health services need to change their attitude and see patients as a whole person with needs and restrictions based on their lifestyle.
Building healthy public policies.
Places health into the agenda of policy makers and helps citizens lead healthy lives by legislating healthy behaviours or banning unhealthy ones.
Strengthening community actions
Communities need to be involved to able to feel that they are in control of their outcomes.
Creating supportive environment
Environments should be supportive for all individuals, to better the health of everyone. In order to promote health people, need to take care of themselves, their natural environment, and communities around them.
(6)
Identify 3 aspects of the Socio-ecological model of health.
Individual
Personal choices including attitudes, values, benefits, skills, and decision making, which influence one’s own health behaviour.
Interpersonal
In this level it looks at how interpersonal relationships impact your health behaviour, as different interpersonal relationships (family, friends, social groups etc) have different norms which can influence a person’s physical activity behaviour.
Organisational
In this level it looks at where a person lives, works, and learns within an organisation, as different organisations (schools and workplaces) contain differing laws, policies, and expectations. This can impact a person and families with their health behaviours.
Community
Multiple organisational institutes which band to create a community. The level explores how differing community contexts influence health behaviours, as different communities contain different norms, customs, and cultures.
Society
At this level it refers to how health behaviour is influenced by local, state, and national policies, and regulations. As differing societies contain different cultural norms, cultural beliefs, collective attitudes, and social and economic policies.
(6)
State at least 3 needs within the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Physiological needs.
Basic needs for a human’s physical survival such as, food, shelter, water, sleep, and water.
Safety needs.
Safety needs in which a human requires to be mentally and physically safe, these include things such as: Physical safety, emotional safety, workplace safety, financial safety, and security.
Belongingness and love need.
An individual needs to have the feeling of belongingness within society or a social group, these include things like family, friends, colleagues, and social groups.
Esteem needs.
The desire to be respected, approval, recognition and to have the sense of achievement. Having the feeling of accomplishment. Esteem needs can be achieved through knowing your own personal worth, status, achievements, and accomplishments.
Self-Actualization needs.
The desire for a person to fulfil one’s potential and achieve personal growth. The level includes the pursuit for creativity, learning, and personal development. A person is within this level when they are: self-aware, interested in one’s personal potential and being concerned with their personal growth.
(3)
Define the Pharmaceutical benefits scheme and given 2 advantages of it.
The pharmaceutical benefit scheme refers to the government subsiding a range of necessary medicine that are essential for health.
* It subsides the prices of medicines to lower income persons.
* Subsides the prices of medicine for those with a Medicare card, most Australians.
(2)
What is the purpose of the PABCAR model.
The PABCAR model is used to identify health problems within a community, while also used to plan and develop multiple interventions for each health problem, to be able to solve or reduce the health problem. The PABCAR model can also be used to determine what needs to be prioritized such as health problem or intervention.
(2)
Identify the 3rd step within the needs assessment.
Prioritising issues,
The key health issues within the population should be considered and prioritised to be reduced. The issues can be prioritised by involving the community members to determine what they believe should be prioritised, the prioritisation of an issue can also be determined by seeking what heath issue is most significant.
(5)
What does the PABCAR model stand for?
- Identification of problem
- Amenability to change.
- Benefits and costs of implementing interventions.
- Acceptability of proposed measures.
- Recommended actions and monitoring.
